Missouri considers vaccine incentive program
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s administration floated the idea of a statewide COVID-19 vaccination incentive program and the…
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Hospital CEO tells anti-vaxers to ‘shut up’
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — One Missouri hospital official is telling anyone making disparaging remarks about the COVID-19 vaccine to “shut…
Governor urges vaccinations as COVID-19 cases spike, July 4 nears
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parsons wants to increase Missouri’s lagging vaccination rate for COVID-19, as the state deals…
Jaco: COVID selfishness, conspiracies endanger vulnerable Missourians, St. Louisans
We hadn’t seen my mother-in-law at her nursing home for a year because of the COVID lockdown. She’s vaccinated. We’re…
Flags to fly at half-staff to honor St. Louis firefighter
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has ordered that U.S. and Missouri flags at fire stations statewide fly at…
Nearly all COVID deaths in U.S. are now among unvaccinated
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective…
In pandemic, drug overdose deaths soar among Black Americans
ST. LOUIS (AP) — She screamed and cried, banged on the dashboard, begging her husband to drive faster, faster, faster…
Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, Missouri is becoming a cautionary tale for…
Head of St. Louis Pandemic Task Force being deployed
St. LOUIS (AP) — Dr. Alex Garza, the head of the St. Louis area’s pandemic task force, will be deployed…
Mayor’s office kept out of committee meeting on COVID relief
CITY HALL – An aldermanic committee held on Tuesday the first of several meetings to discuss how to spend $80…
Missouri leads nation with highest rate of new COVID cases
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri now leads the nation with the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections as vaccinations lag…
Drop in childhood vaccinations stirs concern about school outbreaks
Routine childhood vaccinations dropped dramatically during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, and although they began rebounding last summer as families…
For toddlers, pandemic shapes development during formative years
CASTLE POINT, Mo. — Lucretia Wilks, who runs a small day care out of her home in north St. Louis…
BJC, Washington U. to require vaccinations for employees
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two of the largest employers in the St. Louis area have announced they will require employees…
Should jails emptied in the pandemic stay that way?
It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the…
Missouri tourist hotspots also heating up COVID counts
Southwestern Missouri’s most popular tourist areas are the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Delta variant that is…